I didn’t know what to expect from the sophomore release of
Robert Eggers, who gave us the quite fantastic The Witch a few years ago. I
don’t even think it’s possible to expect anything from this, either from
the viewpoint of someone trying to pick something to watch or as someone in the
cinema seat with their ticket in hand. It legit got to a point, around the
point of this film’s final reel, that I found myself giving in to the weirdness.
I stopped trying to rationalise what I was seeing and just let it all wash over
me… and then I made the trip back home. Time for another deep dive as I try and
put down on paper why this film is so fucking brilliant.
